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inné

/i(n).ne/

adjective/i(n).ne/

innate, inborn, congenital, inbred, native

Antonyms: acquis

Related: innéité

A semi-learned term borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of innāscor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“be born”). Replaced the inherited Old French form enné.